Monthly Archives: November 2012
More Fun With ANTLR v4 and Groovy
The more I play around with it, the more impressed I become with the combination of ANTLR v4 and Groovy. I am learning while I play around with the Grammar and syntax of the language I intend to embed within … Continue reading
ANTLR and Groovy
Mixing ANTLR with Groovy can give you the best of both worlds. Consider the following grammar snippet: additiveExpression : multiplicativeExpression | additiveExpression (‘+’|’-‘) additiveExpression; Handling this within Java is quite tedious. In this example we share a stack of type … Continue reading
A Tale of Two Grammars
A Tale of Two Grammars In days gone by, language creation was a highly sophisticated art practiced by wizards. The tools of the trade were flex, lex, yacc and bison. In the Java technology stack, powerful alternatives to these venerable … Continue reading
Introduction Eventually, during the course of one’s programming career, we encounter a task which requires a high degree of complexity and configurability. This task is cannot be easily expressed in the available languages. XML and property configuration files will fall … Continue reading
Still Coding…
It’s 2:07 AM. I have to work even earlier tomorrow, and I’m still plugging away at code. Cool stuff though. Live Coder – Code D3 interactively and save your results to disk (when run from Dex). This is one of … Continue reading
Still Plugging
It’s 1:30 AM. I have to work early in the morning, and I’m still plugging away at code. I can’t stop. I’m on a roll. My dad always said that “Every now and then, even a blind squirrel finds an … Continue reading
Plugging Along
In case you’ve been wondering. I’m plugging along with Dex 0.6. I’m spending a lot of time rewriting the documentation and have decided to use DokuWiki to keep it up to date. Rather than having to worry about security, I … Continue reading
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